This makes them excellent hunters of different prey, some of which might include wolverines. They have great agility and speed in combination with powerful feet and large sharp talons. Golden eagles are large birds of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere. This is what scientists discovered in July 1994, a wolverine with a skull that was punctured and separated from the first cervical vertebra by a cougar. When attacking, cougars go for a neck bite, attempting to position their teeth between the vertebrae and into the spinal cord. Scientists have noted that cougars will occasionally kill wolverines, mostly at interactions around the carcasses. Wolverines and cougars might not get into too many contacts because they live in habitats at different elevations, but deadly encounters still happen.
Smaller predators are lower in rank than larger predators – that’s why they will take the risk of being killed to get the chance of having some food. CougarsĬougars, also known as mountain lions, are other wolverine predators found throughout the Americas. There is a documented story of a wolverine killing a polar bear by latching onto its throat and holding on until its much larger foe died, but a wolverine would stand no chance in a fight to the death with a bear.
In both recorded cases in the study, wolverines seemed to try to actively avoid encounters with grizzly bears. However, one almost 50-year-long study in Mount McKinley National Park, discovered that wolverines typically avoid grizzly bears since they may not be agile enough to escape bear attacks. Scientists also recorded a few cases of brown bears encountering, killing, and consuming wolverines. This encounter of a wolverine trying to battle head-on with another 10-times bigger carnivore just proves their ferocious and fearless nature. The smaller animal tried to drag the elk carcass away from the bear which resulted in the wolverine’s death. In 2003, researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) discovered a dead wolverine body with clear evidence that it had been killed by a bear. These animals can get in fights over food which might end fatally for the 10 times smaller wolverines ( wolverines weigh 15-61 pounds compared to American black bears weighing 125-550 pounds). This means that their habitat might overlap with that of the American black bears and brown bears. Wolverines live in the taiga and tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. How Do Wolverines Protect Themselves From Predators?.
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